Baking and roasting pan



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J. B. MUNSON.

BAKING ROASTING PAN.

190.397,869. Patented Feb. 12,4 1889.

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NTTED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

JOHN B. MUNSON, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

BAKING AND RASTING PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,869, dated February12, 1889. Application tiled May 25, 1888, Serial No. 275,088. (Nomodel.)

To @ZZ wh/m it may concern:

Be .it known that I, JOHN B. MUNSON, of Scranton, in the county ofLackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement inBaking and Roasting Pans; and the following is declared to be adescription of the same. y

My improved baking and .roastin g pan eonsists of two portions or twopans7 the upper one ot' which is received within an L-shaped tlange madeupon the upper edge of the lower pan, and these two pans are connectedtogether in a simple and et'teient manner with a Form el? hinged jointand spring-catch, so that they can easily be removed from one anotherand placed together vfor use, and in my improvement` the condensedvapors, especially in the operation ot roasting, are free to pass downthe inner sides of the upper pan and will tall back into the lowerpan,the joint where vthe two pans come together being of such a shapethat they are almost ai r-tight and no condensed vapor or water canescape. l

In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section of my improved pan.Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a. section at in largersize, ot the meeting edges of the pan.

u l) represent the two portions or pans composing my improvement, thesame being ot' about an equal size, and the lower pan, u, is made aroundits upper edge with an L-shaped llange,a, and a wired turned-over edgeatc?, and across the bottom ot the pa-n t are the wires c, the ends ofwhich wireshave eyes and are secured by rivets I to the end oi the panu, these wires serving to protect the bottom of the pan from wear and toraise the same above the bottom ol' the oven, so as to allow the air tocirculate and prevent burningboth of the pan vand its contents.

`Each of the portions or pans a l) is made with handles e, for graspingin carrying or handling the pans u b, and the pan b has a rolled edge,d, and sti [toning-wire, one portion of which is protruded from therolled edge and bent outwardly to lorm a loop, d', upon one end of thepan l), andthis loop d is adapted to enter the opening atQin the L-iiange a of the pan u., and to act asa hinge-joint between therespective pans when the same are being opened and sluit, and to acttogether with the spring-catch f in securing the pans (t together, thisspringeaieh f being secured at 3 on the pan l), and having a lowerhookshaped end to engage the outer rolled edge of the L-tlange of thepan u.; and I prefer to employ upon the upper pan, l), a swingingplate,7L, that covers the air-vent. This air-venthas been previously employedin other pans, and whenopened permits the escape of heated air and theproducts of roasting, and in the ease of bread and meat facilitatesthebrowning operation.

Freni Fig. it will be seen how the rolled edge of 'the upper pan, b,titsinto the l.-t1ange d of the lower pan, o, forming a tight joint, a jointwithin the outer edge of the lower pan preventing the escape ofcondensation or the products of roasting and compelling the same toremain within the pan.

l claim as my inventioni The combination, in a baking and roasting pan,with the pan l), having a turned-over edge, d, of the pan u., having anL-shaped 'Banged edge, d', and a turned-over edge at o2, and providedwith an opening at 2, the rigid wire loop d', formed trom the continuousstift'- ening-wire of the edge d, and a catch, f, substantially asspecified.

Signed by me this lst day of May, 1.888.

JOHN B. MUNSON.

.\\'itnesses:

F. E. Looms,

A. D. DEAN.

